First Night
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- United Kingdom
How it feels
This BBC series presented original TV dramas from new writers. It featured single plays like Maggie and Veronica, each directed by different directors. Most episodes are lost, but some fragments have survived.
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What happens
First Night was a BBC series of contemporary television dramas by new writers, which ran from September 1963 to May 1964 and was the forerunner of The Wednesday Play. The series was produced by James MacTaggart. Only a single episode (Maggie) is known to exist, as well as the opening segment of Veronica which was rediscovered in 2025 by Film Is Fabulous. The rest of the series, including The Road, is considered lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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